[상상한 미래] 개화기가 그린 백 년 뒤 한양

How a Korean illustrator of the 1900s Korean Empire (Daehan Jeguk, Korean, NOT Japanese, NOT Chinese) might have imagined Hanyang a hundred years later: a hand-coloured lithograph newspaper illustration filling the whole image. Curved Korean giwa tile roofs of hanok houses and a palace gate in the foreground, electric streetcars on the main avenue, a fleet of hot-air dirigibles with hanji-paper envelopes and wooden gondolas floating over Bugaksan mountain, people in white Korean hanbok and wide black gat hats looking up and pointing. Fine black linework, flat watercolour washes in pale indigo, ochre and persimmon red, aged paper. No text, no letters, no hangul, no Chinese characters, no signboards with writing.